Austin Jackson + Zach McAllister = !!!

Triple-A Scranton is off for the All-Star break.Â The International League squad beat their Pacific Coast League counterparts 7-5.
Shelley Duncan: 0 for 2, 1 BB, 2 K – started at DH and batted 6th…pinch hit for in the 8th by a former Yankee top draft pick…Jim Brower: 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K – got the last out of the 6th

Double-A TrentonÂ is off for the All-Star break. The AS game was cancelled after less than 2 and a half innings because of a ridiculously thick fog.Â All three Yankee farmhands who made theÂ trip got into the game before they called it off.
Jeff Marquez: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1 WP, 2-1 GB/FB – started the game…8 of 14 pitches were strikesAlan Horne: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K – pitched the second…10 of 12 pitches were strikes…Matt Carson: 0 for 0, 1 HBP – started in left field and batted ninth…when he got hit by the pitch, they played this over the stadium PA system…classic

Wordekemper – is he going to get moved up at some point? I mean, he’s not getting any younger.

C-Note

if someone could post Horne’s inning of work on youtube that would be great, I only realised that game was on TV till it was too late :(

for a couple of slow nights some great pitching by Heredia last night and McAllister tonight— The pitchers in the Yankee system who I am watching the boxscore whenever they pitch to see how they are doing are Hughes, JoBA, Kennedy, Horne, Betances, Kontos, McAllister, and now Heredia… and that’s only starters—should have another wave of guys coming back from injury and from this years draft

With the rise of JoBA, Kennedy & Horne, with the guys coming up behind them, and Hughes in the NY rotation once he comes back from injury, don’t you get the feeling that T-Clip will be the the odd man out? So weird becasue that sunday night against the mets was so great and so needed, and he was brought up WAY too early– but with him being a control pitcher losing his control and some very special arms comming up quickly behind him in the last few weeks it’s just hard to psyched about T-Clip…

Horne’s progression back from TJ surgery to were his stuff and career are today has to be a great lesson to Sanchez, Garcia, and the 21 other pitchers who needed to have TJ down on the farm in the last year…

does anyone else take great pleasure seeing the Mets top shelf pitching prospects sucking? they always love to bullshit about the wealth of home grown legends in their past from Seaver to Gooden and so on

anyone still think Pelfry will be better than PHIL?

or at this point JoBA, or Kennedy or Horne??

and how much of a signing bonus did they bend over and give him?

baseball the way it oughta be my ass

Mike R.

Hey Mike:

I’m curious. Where do you consider the level of competition in short season ball in comparison to college ball and Low A? McCallister’s line was incredible in any league, but I just want to know what kind of opponents he was facing.

Zack

And for that matter, do y’all see McCallister bumping up to low A with a few more good starts, or is he young enough to stay at SI all season?

CB

Does anyone know if the Yankees are still sticking with their plan of not letting McCallister throw his two seamer at all so that he develops more velocity and improves his 4 seam fastball?

I thought that was the plan for him – get more velocity out of his size – but I can’t imagine how he’d generate these almost Wang like GB/FB ratios without his hard, sinking two seamer?

http://riveraveblues.com Mike A.

RE: Wordekemper
Wordekemper is what he is. He’s the kind of guy that has to prove himself at every level, and make the climb one step at a time. When he eventually gets to the bigs, he’s one of those guys that’ll have the announcers saying “see kids, if a 47th round pick can make, you can too.”

RE: Short Season Competition
I think the NY-Penn League is a little bit tougher than the college level in terms of competition, but not that much tougher. The guys playing in the NYPL are the top college players in the country (there’s over 6,500 kids playing college ball each year, and only 800 or so actually get drafted) and some of the very best high school and international guys. It’s a great way to see what you have in young guys, which makes what McAllister is doing all the more impressive.

McAllister
I think he’s in Short Season for the rest of the year, and I happen to think that sending him to Low-A would be a demotion. He’d have to head to High-A to be bumped up to better competition. He can wait until next year.

He must still be using his 2-seamer, it’s tough to generate that many groundballs on a 4-seamer alone. He came out of high school as a 2-seamer-changeup guy with a decent slider, but the Yanks got him to use his 4-seamer more and also had him add a curve. I dunno if he’s using all 5 pitches, but it’d be damn cool if he was.